Review: In Justin Peck’s New Dance, Air, Earth and Self-Help
Justin Peck’s newest work for New York City Ballet, his 25th, is called “Mystic Familiar,” a title that turns out to be telling. Those two words encapsulate the rise and…
Fun Things to Do in NYC in February 2025
‘Margaret’s Gay Sons Featuring Dylan Adler and Sam Oh’ Jan. 31 at 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, Manhattan; publictheater.org. As part of her residency at Joe’s Pub,…
Jimmy Fallon Makes His Broadway Debut in “All In”
Four days a week, Jimmy Fallon performs for a TV audience of millions of people as the host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show.” But stepping onto the stage of the…
Practicing for When the Bombs Fall in ‘A Knock on the Roof’
There comes a point late in “A Knock on the Roof,” a new solo play about ordinary people under bombardment in Gaza, when the boundary blurs unsettlingly and the audience…
Idina Menzel Played Elphaba and Elsa. Now She’s Back on Broadway.
Idina Menzel was sitting on a bench in a California redwood grove, yearning for silence. It was late one autumn afternoon, and I had been trying for months to get…
In ‘Eureka Day,’ a Scene About Vaccines Devolves, Hilariously
The third scene of the new Broadway production of “Eureka Day” could be titled The Way We Discourse Now. As written by the playwright Jonathan Spector, the scene reliably has…
7 Surprisingly Busy Days in the Life of an Experimental Theater Maker
January is known as a time when New York commercial theater recovers from its holiday bender and takes a break from openings. It’s another story for the experimental performance scene,…
How Kara Young, a Tony-Winning Actress, Spends Her Sundays
Many actors have to leave their support systems behind when they set out to follow their Broadway dreams. But Kara Young, a Tony Award-winning actress who grew up in Harlem…
Putting His Father’s Final Words Onstage, With a Little Ambivalence
A terminally ill writer goes into the hospital. Aware that it will be his final stay, he holds onto a notebook, declaring to his family that he is working on…
150 Years of See and Be Seen at Paris’s Palais Garnier Opera House
The Palais Garnier in Paris is among the world’s oldest theaters that still functions more or less in its original state. And long before the appearance of the selfie-stick, the…